CYNETart_07encounter: Various Degrees and Possibilities of Including the Audience and Communicating Media Art Works to the Public by Thomas Dumke and Anja Dietel

CYNETart_07encounter: Various Degrees and Possibilities of Including the Audience and Communicating Media Art Works to the Public

Thomas Dumke and Anja Dietel

TMA (Trans Media Academy) Hellerau is dedicated to the setting up, promotion and realisation of intermedia art projects. It essentially represents an experimental platform for the use and linkage of various interface systems with a new quality in space-time, social and synaesthetic dimensions. The classic notion of “art” with a separation of social space into producers and audience as well as the real-time dimension are being questioned by ways of technology-based interaction. One of the highlights and focal point of work of the TMA Hellerau is the international festival of computer-based art and inter-disciplinary media projects called CYNETart taking place annually. The CYNETart festival presents media performances, networked virtual environments and interactive installations. In the realisation of its media art works the festival builds on dimensions of the human body as baseline for authentic perception and communication. In most of the projects the participation of the audience is accomplished by their direct performative technically-un-mediated interaction. Thus the quality of the “work” and the intention of the artist can only be experienced in correspondence with a direct action. Selective examples of the CYNETart_07encounter festival will be used to demonstrate the various degrees and possibilities of including the audience and communicating media art works to the public.

Bio: Thomas Dumke (DE) studied history, sociology and cultural management. Since 1999 he has been involved in CYNETart festival, in 2006 he has become its director. In 2000 he initiated together with Matthias Härtig the »microscope session«, a series of A/V events. He is a member of the art collective DS-X.org and a founding member of TMA Hellerau which was established in 2001.